The issues arising from the evolution of big data and network environment have rendered
the relationship among experts to no longer be an independent multi-attribute group …

Echo chambers naturally occur on social networks, where individuals join groups to share
and discuss their own interests driven by algorithms that steer their beliefs and behaviours …

Social networks (SNs) have become popular as a medium for disseminating information and
connecting like-minded people. They play a central role in decision-making by correlating …

In emergency medical facilities location, the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system
plays an obvious role in the rational allocation of medical resources and improving the use …

Supply chain finance (SCF) can provide innovative financing approaches for cash-
constrained supply chain partners, which has been utilized for industries to optimize capital …

The existing consensus models of conflict decision-making generally assume that the
decision-makers' preferences are simple and certain. This assumption oversimplifies the …

In the past, different useful extensions of fuzzy sets were established by the researchers to
manage the vagueness and uncertainty in various practical problems. Usually, the real …

To address the situation where multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems with
hesitant fuzzy linguistic evaluation information, this study develops a group decision-making …

The picture hesitant fuzzy sets (PHFSs), which consider neutral membership degree as well
as positive and negative membership degrees, provide decision makers (DMs) a flexible …